Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Crossover Cover: Maker of Shadows

 

Are you a fan of Robert E. Howard's fiction?

Then you'll love this novel, in which Jack Mann's occult detective Gees encounters an immortal sorcerer who is the son of Howard's Pictish king Bran Mak Morn!

For more information, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this new tome is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's seminal works Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!

Monday, February 27, 2023

Crossover Cover: Too Much Time

 

The time traveler Waverider views the future of the members of Justice League International’s European branch to determine whether one of them will become Monarch, the tyrant that rules over his native year of 2001. Said future involves a mishap sending them to various time periods, past and future, where they meet DC heroes of those eras. The armored Russian hero Rocket Red (Dmitri Pushkin) finds himself in Arthurian England, where he joins the Knights of the Round Table. Dmitri toasts one of his fellow knights, “To you, my friend! Is good Russian name, Ivan! But from where do you get this Chinese last name, ‘Ho’?” The Elongated Man winds up in 1895 London, where Professor Moriarty becomes entangled in his malleable body. Later, he attends a party, where an irate Sherlock Holmes accuses him of sheer luck in capturing his archenemy. With very rare exceptions, superhero teams such as Justice League Europe are not included in the Crossover Universe. Further cementing this story outside CU continuity is the fact it is part of a company-wide crossover event called Armageddon 2001. Lastly, Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe takes place during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, not King Arthur.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Spring 2011
STILETTO 
Myfanwy Thomas must broker a merger between her group, the Chequy, a British organization that combats supernatural menaces, and their foes the Grafters, formerly known as the Broederschap. Appearing or mentioned are a student from the University of Ingolstadt who created a monster, Noble’s Island, Yalding Towers, Ryhope Wood, the Deptford Power Station, Kirrin Island, Podsnap’s Technique, a drunk individual muttering about a beekeeper and the dynamics of rocks in space, Walmington-on-Sea, and Brünnhilde Trant-Erskine-Brown. 
Novel by Daniel O’Malley, Little, Brown and Company, 2016. The University of Ingolstadt student is Victor Frankenstein. O’Malley’s account of Victor and his monster’s deaths is inconsistent with Shelley’s novel, not to mention the monster’s many later appearances in the CU, but with the passing of a couple of centuries, it’s not impossible some information got garbled. Noble’s Island is the titular setting of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. Yalding Towers is from Edith Nesbit’s The Enchanted Castle. Ryhope Wood is from the Mythago Wood series by Robert Holdstock. The Deptford Power Station is from the Deptford Mice series by Robin Jarvis. Kirrin Island is from the Famous Five novels by Enid Blyton. Podsnap’s Technique is from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, making that novel a possible future for the CU. The drunk individual muttering about a beekeeper and the dynamics of rocks in space is Professor Moriarty. Walmington-on-Sea is from the British sitcom Dad’s Army. Brünnhilde Trant-Erskine-Brown must be the third child of Claude Erskine-Brown and his wife, the former Phyllida Trant, both QCs themselves, from the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey. Claude is a Wagner fan, and his and Phyllida’s two children in the show are named Tristan and Isolde. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! Much like the first two volumes, it is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Crossover Cover: Victory Harben: Fires of Halos

Are you a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs' works?

Then you'll love this novel, the culmination of the Swords of Eternity Super-Arc running through the first wave of new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novels published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! Written by Christopher Paul Carey, ERB, Inc.'s Director of Publishing, author of the official continuations of Philip Jose Farmer's Ancient Opar novels, and a good friend of mine, this book spans all of time and space, with many familiar characters from different Burroughs works appearing or being mentioned along the way!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Friday, February 24, 2023

Crossover Cover: Blind Man's Bluff

 

Seven of Nine introduces Soleta to the Doctor, Voyager’s former Emergency Medical Hologram. Soleta responds, “The Doctor? I met a man called the Doctor once. Wore a long brown coat and a blue suit. Very odd person. This isn’t him.” The man Soleta met is the Doctor of Doctor Who fame, specifically his tenth incarnation. Although most of the Doctor’s recorded exploits take place in an AU, he does have a CU counterpart, who often goes by the name Doctor Omega. 

This crossover, and many more, will be included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World, which will be published by Meteor House! Like the other two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Tequila

Are you a Spaghetti Western fan?

Then you may like this comedic entry in the genre, which references the Lone Ranger as a real person!

For more details, see my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
 

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Pirate's Festival

Two-fisted sailor Lance O’Casey duels with female pirate Singapore Sal, who also battled Don Winslow several times in Fawcett’s comic book based on Lt. Commander Frank V. Martinek’s comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy. Don Winslow and Lance O’Casey have both been linked to the CU and their encounters with Sal confirm their coexistence. Lance battled Sal again two issues later in a story entitled “The Stolen Starfish.” 

This crossover, and many, many more, are covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by the fine folks at Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Revelations

 

Are you a Ghostbusters fan?

Then you'll love this episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which features a fictional book from that film!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! As with the first two volumes, this tome is an official and AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Monday, February 20, 2023

Crossover Covers: Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel






Batman and Robin join forces with John Steed and Emma Peel to battle the Cybernauts, Mr. Freeze, and Lord Ffogg. Batman says, “As a noted crime-fighting predecessor once observed, ‘the weeds of crime bear bitter fruit!’” Batman’s crime-fighting predecessor is the pulp hero of the shadows. The Batman and Robin seen here are Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne, Jr.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! Much like the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2, and will be published by Meteor House!

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Crossover of the Week

December 25, 2003
DR. DOA 
Eddie Drood and Molly Metcalf go after the assassin known as Dr. DOA, who has poisoned Eddie. Appearing or mentioned are: the Wood Between the Worlds; Strangefellows bar, in the Nightside; the Walking Man; the Adventurers Club; Shadows Fall; the Unholy Grail; Baron Frankenstein; Castle Frankenstein; Dead Boy; Larry Oblivion; the Ghost Finders; tanna leaf; a woman with something moving inside her back; a woman smoking a cigarette through a hole in her throat; Cthulhu; Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar; Black Heir; Persecution Psmith; the Necronomicon; the Book of Eibon; the Mysteries of the Wurm; Harry Fabulous; Dorian Gray; Martian red weed; MI Thirteen; a Maltese falcon; the Organization; the Hydra’s teeth; and Hadleigh Oblivion. 
Novel by Simon R. Green. The Wood Between the Worlds is from C. S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew. Strangefellows bar, the Walking Man, the Adventurers Club, the Unholy Grail, Dead Boy, Larry and Hadleigh Oblivion, and Harry Fabulous are from Green’s Nightside series. Shadows Fall is from Green’s novel of the same name. Baron Frankenstein and Castle Frankenstein are from Mary Shelley’s novel. The Ghost Finders are the subject of another series of novels by Green. Tanna leaves are from Universal Studios’ Mummy film series. The woman with something moving inside her back is Karen Tandy from Graham Masterson’s novel The Manitou. The thing inside her back is Misquamacus, originally from August Derleth’s The Lurker at the Threshold. The woman smoking through a hole in her throat may be Juno from the movie Beetlejuice. Cthulhu, shoggoths, the Necronomicon, the Book of Eibon and the Mysteries of the Wurm are from the Cthulhu Mythos. Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar is from Neil Gaiman’s story of the same name. Black Heir and the Organization are from Green’s Ishmael Jones Mysteries series. Persecution Psmith, an immortal Puritan adventurer, is a thinly veiled version of Robert E. Howard’s Puritan hero Solomon Kane. Matthew Baugh also portrayed Kane as long-lived in his story “The Heart of the Moon.” Dorian Gray is from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Martian red weed is from H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. MI Thirteen is the CU version of the British intelligence organization of the same name in the Marvel Comics Universe. The Maltese Falcon is from Dashiell Hammett’s classic detective novel. The Hydra’s teeth are from the movie Jason and The Argonauts
This write-up is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Crossover Audiobook: Terminus

 

Are you a fan of Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series?

Then you'll love this audiobook, part of Peter Clines' Threshold series, which has a nod to a character from the Ledger books!
For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Friday, February 17, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Hanukkah

 


Rabbi Walter Paisley appears. Paisley is played by Dick Miller, who originated the character in A Bucket of Blood and reprised the role in several later films. In the original film, Walter seemingly committed suicide rather than be arrested for the murders he committed, but this must have been staged. Walter’s fugitive status would explain his frequent job changes. 
This film is one of hundreds of crossovers covered in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Crossover TV Series: Penny Dreadful

 

Are you a fan of classic monsters such as Dracula and Frankenstein's monster?

Then you may enjoy the TV series Penny Dreadful, featuring versions of those and other iconic characters in Victorian London!

For more details, see the appendix on alternate universes in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! Much like the first two volumes, this book is an official and fully AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Crossover Cover: Nailbiter/Hack/Slash

 

Cassie Hack and Vlad are searching for a homicidal maniac called Mister Fatal. They meet Edward Charles Warren, who tells Cassie he and the killer are from Buckaroo, Oregon, a town which has produced fifteen serial murderers and counting. Mister Fatal seemingly falls to his death from a Ferris wheel, but no corpse is found. After Cassie and Vlad leave, Warren plans to murder Mister Fatal, who is in the trunk of his car. A few years later, Cassie receives an e-mail from Warren, who says her mother, the slasher known as the Lunch Lady, was from Buckaroo. Warren has lured her and Vlad there to be taken out by another serial killer. After they eliminate their opponent, the duo trail Warren to Riverside, California, only to find him being arrested for the so-called “Nailbiter murders.” 

Cassie Hack and Vlad of Hack/Slash fame have many ties to the CU. This crossover brings in Edward Charles Warren, the protagonist of Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson’s comic Nailbiter. An editor’s note places the latter half of this story before Hack/Slash: The Series #12.

For more crossovers like this, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming ASAP from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Monster on Hold

 

Are you a fan of the late great science fiction Grandmaster Philip Jose Farmer?

Then you'll love this novel, a posthumous collaboration between Farmer and Win Scott Eckert, and the fourth book in the Secrets of the Nine series, which takes place in both the Nine Universe and the Crossover Universe!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded:  A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be released by Meteor House! All three books are AUTHORIZED companions to Win's invaluable pieces of research Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Monday, February 13, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Degüello

 



In this episode of Endeavour set in Mid October 1969, Oxford don Dr. Nicholson tells Chief Inspector Fred Thursday he is writing a paper on Edwardian erotica. Thursday replies he’s more of a Holly Martins man himself. Western writer Holly Martins is the protagonist of the movie The Third Man

This crossover is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Crossover of the Week

April 17, 1922

THE COVENTRY STREET TERROR 

Charles St. Cyprian and his assistant Ebe Gallowglass are called in by Special Branch to investigate a series of apparent vampire attacks. Inspector Boothroyd thinks it might be poison, “like that business in Brichester last year.” Vampires are, save for that brief, unpleasant incident during Victoria’s reign so inventively described in Stoker’s book, mostly extinct in England. St. Cyprian says maybe Thibaut de Castries was right when he said, in Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities, that cities were the new dark forest of man’s fear. St. Cyprian considered placing a call to the Westenra Fund but decided against it. Edwin Drood helped the fund’s founding members kill a frisky Wallachian. The head of the fund is Lord Godalming. St. Cyprian tells Gallowglass, “Trout isn’t the most imaginative sort, but he and Cuff know the score. They were involved in that Myrdstone business, a few years back.” They are helped against the vampire by Baron Palman Vordenburg, who mentions a certain theater in the Boulevard du Temple where the undead congregate at times. He identifies the vampire as Lothar Karnstein, who was the lover of Countess Dolingen of Graz. St. Cyprian tells Trout and Cuff that Lothar is not exactly Raffles, running about in disguise. 

Short story by Josh Reynolds in Casefiles of the Royal Occultist Volume Two: Hochmuller’s Hound, 18thWall Productions, 2020. Brichester is a town in the Severn Valley in Ramsey Campbell’s Cthulhu Mythos stories. The brief, unpleasant incident during Victoria’s reign is a reference to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Westenra Fund is named after the late Lucy Westenra, who was turned into a vampire by Dracula and subsequently staked by Van Helsing and company, including her fiancé, Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming. Countess Dolingen of Graz is from Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest.” Thibaut de Castries and his book Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities are from Fritz Leiber’s novel Our Lady of Darkness. Edwin Drood is from Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Inspector Trout is from the movies The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again. Cuff may be a descendant of Sergeant Cuff from Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone. “The Myrdstone witch-cult” is mentioned in Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak story “Curse of the Black Pharaoh.” Baron Palman Vordenburg is a descendant of Baron Vordenburg from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” The Karnsteins are Carmilla’s family. The theater in the Boulevard du Temple is the Théâtre des Vampires from Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. A. J. Raffles needs no introduction now. 

For many more crossover writeups like this, check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Much like the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Crossover Cover: Mr. American

 

Are you a fan of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels?

Then you'll love this standalone novel by Fraser, which has a prominent appearance by Harry Flashman himself!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House. All three volumes are official and AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Friday, February 10, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: The Lady Vanishes


Among the other passengers on the train from which governess Miss Froy disappears are cricketing enthusiasts Charters and Caldicott. This 1938 feature film directed by Alfred Hitchcock is in the CU through Stuart Shiffman’s story “Grim Days.” Charters and Caldicott were played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, who reprised their roles in three more films, Night Train to Munich, Crook’s Tour, and Millions Like Us

This crossover is one among hundreds that will be included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Crossover Cover: Crimson Shore

 

Are you a fan of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Aloysius Pendergast series?

Then you'll love this book in the series, which has an appearance by H. P. Lovecraft's infamous book, the Necronomicon!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! Much like the first two volumes, this book is an official and AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's amazing tomes Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Crossover Cover: Strange Magic


Occult investigator Quincey Morris and white witch Libby Chastain find themselves up against an attempt by the CIA to use demons as weapons in the War on Terror. The agency is trying to recreate an experiment in Fairfax, Virginia in 2002 that summoned the demon Asmodeus, with disastrous results. Quincey tells Libby about an occult detective named William Sebastian who had a run-in with Asmodeus in the 1970s. Quincey Morris is the great-grandson of the character of the same name in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Fairfax experiment was the subject of Gustainis’ non-series novel The Hades Project. William Sebastian is from the 1977 television pilot Spectre, co-written and produced by Gene Roddenberry.

This crossover, and hundreds more like it, will be covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Much like the first two volumes, this book is an official and AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Bamboo Bomb

 

Are you a fan of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels?

Then you'll love this book in "James Dark's" (J. E. Macdonnell) series about spy Mark Hood, which has a shout-out to the first Bond book, Casino Royale!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED continuations of Win Scott Eckert's essential reads Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Monday, February 6, 2023

Crossover Covers: Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo


 



In Mud Creek, Texas, Jonah Hex has a run-in with Doc “Cross” Williams and his traveling freak show, which includes Wild Bill Hickok, who Williams turned into a zombie using The Book of Doches. Williams also possesses a copy of the book Anatomy by Maturin. The town of Mud Creek and The Book of Doches recur throughout Lansdale’s fiction, both prose and comic books. Maturin is Dr. Stephen Maturin from Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels.

This crossover is one of hundreds that will be included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be released by Meteor House! Much like the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Sunday, February 5, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Spring 1925
THE PECULIAR CATS OF THE SEA OF DREAMS 
Ismeddin guides Madame Palmyre, Victoria Custer, Mademoiselle Kephra, and Renée to Atlänaat, where they seek a Dreamer. The ladies, after eating drugged fruit, awaken in a vault that has carvings in Arabic script from the writings of an Arab scholar of centuries past, which an American translated as, “That does not sleep, which doth eternal lie, and in strange aeons, even death may die.” Victoria wants to find her lover, Nu, son of Nu, who her brother says she only dreamed was alive. Madame Palmyre believes the Dreamer is her former lover, a god known variously as Azathoth, Cthulhu, Mana-Yood-Sushai, and Baal. The Dreamer sends them to Earth’s Dreamlands. The women meet Randolph Carter, formerly of Boston and currently of Celephaïs. Carter’s bookshelves hold titles such as Astral and Astarral Co-Ordination and Interference, the Black Tome of Alsophocus, the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, and the Necronomicon. Carter says his passions are reserved for his books, cats, and his quest to see the Great Ones in their unknown home of Kadath. A cat who gained the power to speak in the waking world after eating his master’s parrot guides the women and Carter past the turquoise temple of Nath-Horthath. Victoria is abducted by men who take her to the Black Galleys, which typically frequent the port of Dylath-Leen. Carter says a shantak-bird could fly his friends to Dylath-Leen, but he does not know how to summon them. Instead, they are transported inside a strange catlike creature. Our heroines confront the men from Leng, as well as creatures resembling bipedal frogs with pink tentacles where their faces should be. 
Short story by Matthew Baugh in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 16: Voir Dire, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2019; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 27), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2020. Ismeddin is the protagonist of a series of stories by E. Hoffmann Price. Atlänaat and the Dreamer are from Price’s stories “The Dreamer of Atlänaat” and “A Jest and a Vengeance.” Madame Palmyre and Baal are from Renée Dunan’s novel Baal. Victoria Custer and Nu are from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Eternal Lover. Victoria’s brother Barney is the protagonist of Burroughs’ The Mad King. Mademoiselle Kephra is Cleo Kefra from Jack Mann’s Gees novels Maker of Shadows and The Ninth Life. The Arab scholar is Abdul Alhazred, and the passage quoted is from his Necronomicon, one of the occult tomes of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Azathoth and Cthulhu are also from the Mythos. Mana-Yood-Sushai is from Lord Dunsany’s The Gods of Pegana. The Dreamlands are from Lovecraft and Price’s “Through the Gates of the Silver Key” and the other tales in Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle. Celephaïs is from Lovecraft’s story of the same name, as well as the Dream Cycle tale “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,” as is Nath-Horthath. Astral and Astarral Co-Ordination and Interference is from William Hope Hodgson’s “The Whistling Room,” a tale of Carnacki, the ghost-finder. The Black Tome of Alsophocus is from Lovecraft and Martin S. Warnes’ titular story. The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are from “The Other Gods” and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” Kadath is seen or mentioned in several of Lovecraft’s stories. The talking cat is from Joann Sfar’s comic book The Rabbi’s Cat. The Black Galleys, Dylath-Leen, the shantak-birds, the Men of Leng, and the froglike creatures (the Moon-beasts) are from “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” The Catbus is from the animated film My Neighbor Totoro
This crossover write-up is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Much like the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: The King Lives?

 

Are you a Get Smart fan? 

Then you'll love the episode "The King Lives," which not only parodies Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda, but also has a crossover reference to it!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this edition is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!

Friday, February 3, 2023

Crossover Cover: Cleaning the Gold

 

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher and Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Will Trent butt heads at Fort Knox, but ultimately join forces to battle the bad guys. Child’s character Jack Reacher is already in the CU through various connections, including a reference in Stephen King’s novel Under the Dome, so this story brings in Slaughter’s Agent Will Trent. Beginning with the third book, Undone, the Trent series merged with Slaughter’s other series of thrillers set in Grant County, GA, with Will ultimately becoming romantically involved with one of the protagonists of those books, medical examiner Sara Linton.

This crossover is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Velvet Smooth

 

Are you a fan of blaxploitation movies?

Then you'll love this entry in the genre, which has a cameo appearance by Lt. Theo Kojak!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming ASAP from Meteor House. All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Curse of the Pharaohs

 

In 1892-1893, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Professor Radcliffe Emerson, take over the late Sir Henry Baskerville’s supposedly cursed excavation in the Valley of the Kings at the request of his widow. Sir Henry is said to be of the Norfolk Baskervilles, not the Devonshire branch of the family. The Devonshire branch of the Baskervilles is from Doyle and Watson’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, bringing Amelia Peabody into the CU. 

This crossover is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House. All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!